Quotes About Courage

the courage to accept oneself as accepted in spite of being unacceptable…. This is the genuine meaning of the Pauline-Lutheran doctrine of 'justification by faith

Providence," he argues, "is not a theory about some activities of God; it is the religious symbol of the courage of confidence with respect to fate and death.

It is the expression of the anxiety of meaninglessness and of the attempt to take this anxiety into the courage to be as oneself. (139)

The faith which makes the courage of despair possible is the acceptance of the power of being, even in the grip of non-being. Even in the despair about meaning being affirms itself through us. The act of accepting meaninglessness is in itself a meaningful act. It is an act of faith.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. (190)

Le courage d'être s'enracine dans le Dieu qui apparaît quand Dieu a disparu dans l'angoisse du doute.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Faith includes both an immediate awareness of something unconditional and the courage to take the risk of uncertainty upon itself. Faith says "Yes" in spite of the anxiety of "No." Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality

Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.

it is remarkable that among the emperors it was not the willful tyrants of the Nero type or the fanatical reactionaries of the Julian type that were a serious danger to Christianity but the righteous Stoics of the type of Marcus Aurelius. The reason for this is that the Stoic has a social and personal courage which is a real alternative to Christian courage.

De moed van het vertrouwen neemt de angst voor het lot even goed als de angst voor de schuld in zich op. Deze moed zegt tot beide: "En toch."Dit is de ware betekenis van de leer der voorzienigheid. Voorzienigheid is geen theorie over zekere handelingen van God, maar het godsdienstig symbool van de moed van het vertrouwen ten aanzien van lot en dood. Want de moed van het vertrouwen zegt zelfs tot de dood: "En toch.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Joy is the emotional expression of the courageous YES to one's own true being.

In the courageous standing of uncertainty, faith shows most visibly its dynamic character.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

Faith is the cure that heals all troubles. Without faith there is no hope and no love. Faith comes before hope, and before love. (Sheikh Muhammad ibn Zaidi bani Tihama)

I taught you to take the first step: to learn to believe in belief. And one day you will take the second step and find what is it you believe in.

We believe that faith is the cure that heals all troubles.

The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!

Le vent se léve! ... il faut tenter de vivre!

Le vent se lève, il faut tantrer de vivre = El viento se levanta, hay que intentar vivir

El viento se levanta… ¡hay que intentar vivir!

Le vent se lève, Il faut tenter de vivre!

J' étais prétentieux, disait l'un de mes professeurs ; farfelu, disaient mes camarades, à l'exception de mon ami Claude Laurent (car j'aimais et aimerai l'amitié et aurai toujours des amis). Il m'a donc fallu apprendre à devenir indifférent à l'opinion d'autrui.